[ale] Dropbox opinions wanted

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 09/15/2010 12:11 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I have found something else that I sure is exactly what I think it is.
>
> As I said, I store PDFs on DB.  Many of them are manuals.  Sometimes
> when I download a manual to ~/Downloads then copy it to
> ~/Dropbox/<directory>   I see the icon sync but only for a second.
>
> Some manuals can be rather large so my thought is that they take a MD5
> sum of the manual and look in their database for something that matches.
> If it does then they simply copy the match to my account instead of
> uploading what I placed in my Dropbox directory.

In theory, I would have a problem with that.  I don't think they should 
be snooping around in my data for the sake of someone elses.  I 
perfectly understand the issue though, still, I don't like it, if in 
fact, that is what they are doing.

>
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:33 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>> I believe that problem is going to be fixed in 0.8. They have devised
>> some way to keep permissions and attributes set.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Chris Fowler
>> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>  wrote:
>>> I store all of my manuals in DB so I can read them on any computer that
>>> is mine.  Or I can read them on the iTouch.
>>>
>>> My only wish is that they would preserve permissions.  I store programs
>>> and typically when they sync I have to chmod them so they will execute.
>>> Not a big deal.  I takes 5s to execute the command.
>>
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Until later, Geoffrey

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